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Example sentences for "seige"

Lexicographically close words:
sei; seid; seide; seiden; seie; seigh; seigneurial; seigneurie; seigneuries; seigneurs
  1. Their best peices ware transported during the seige of the Rochel; they have never bein brought back yet.

  2. Rutherfurd wt a tree leg--his oune was dong from him at the Seige of Graveling--and Captain Scot, also on C.

  3. But that this Seige hath had so happy an end, himself will and doth attribute it to the Diligence and Judgement of Sir Edward Cecil.

  4. The honor of the conduct of this seige no man will detract from the Count Maurice, who is the Maistre-ouvrier in that Mestier.

  5. His daughter entertained General Washington at their home during the seige of Boston, and General Lee was with him.

  6. At Watertown during the seige of Boston, the Revolutionists endeavored to obtain their assistance.

  7. The fragments of the two armies uniting made their way to Syria, where they co-operated with forces of the princes of Jerusalem and Antioch, in laying seige to Damascus, but without effect.

  8. Having now acquired great celebrity, and become acquainted with General Fairfax during the seige of Colchester, he was appointed to preach at Whitehall the day after the execution of Charles the First.

  9. Killed in 1799 in the battle of La Pelerine or at the seige of Fougeres.

  10. Enjoying the favor of the Duc d'Angouleme, he was allowed a command during the Spanish war (1823), gained prominence at the seige of Cadiz and attained the highest degrees in the military hierarchy.

  11. The details of the seige of Fort Beausejour need not here be given, suffice it to say that after four days' bombardment the Sieur de Vergor was obliged, on the 16th June, to surrender to Colonel Monckton.

  12. In what seige were they employed with success by the native troops of India?

  13. They were first used at the seige of Rhege, in the year 1521.

  14. At the seige of Flushing, they appear to have been used with success, and general Monnet, the French commandant, made a formal remonstrance to lord Chatham respecting the use of them in that bombardment.

  15. During the seige of Cassel, under the count de la Lippe, in the campaign of 1762, a young engineer undertook to carry one of the outworks, with a small detachment of men by using grenades, and in consequence succeeded.

  16. They were also employed in the seige of Calais, in 1347.

  17. At the commencement of the French revolution, poisoned balls were exhibited to the people, pretended to have been fired by the Austrians, particularly at the seige of Lisle.

  18. And when the people had ratified the election, he marched with his forces into the territories of the Faliscans, and laid seige to Falerii, a well-fortified city, and plentifully stored with all necessaries of war.

  19. The seige by land was confirmed about the Castell of Sanctandrois, the xviiij day of Julij.

  20. The seige by sea and land was laid about the Castle of S.

  21. The seige is still the rudest test in the world.

  22. Of course the Peking seige has already been amply described in many volumes and much magazine literature.

  23. Alick Purcel almost immediately joined the family in the parlor, to whom he related a full and somewhat ludicrous account of the seige of O'Driscol Castle, as he called it--or Nassau Lodge.

  24. The duke of Berwick passed the Rhine in October, and undertook the seige of fort Kehl, which in a few days was surrendered on capitulation: then he repassed the river and returned to Versailles.

  25. A large body of Austrians entered Silesia, and penetrated as far as Breslau; then, turning back, they laid seige to the important fortress of Schweidnitz, the key of that country.

  26. Though this was a mortifying disappointment, he bore it without repining; and, far from abandoning himself to despair, began his march to the castle of Blair, which was threatened with a seige by general Mackay.


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